Juxtapoz Magazine – It Goes to Show: Alvin Armstrong @ Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC

“I have generally been aggressive,” Alvin Armstrong instructed us this previous Summer. “I was not the speediest or the strongest, but I could generally compete with the ideal simply because my character has often been extreme. Even if I was clueless, I knew that I would perform like a puppy until finally there was improvement. It was like donning blinders, focusing on what was ahead and moving forward. When I did something and was dissatisfied with it, I did not keep there—I just worked at it once again until I was happy.”

Anna Zorina Gallery is delighted to present It Goes to Clearly show, Alvin Armstrong’s 2nd solo exhibition with the gallery. The display characteristics the artist’s most up-to-date series of paintings that depict a expensive friend, Miles, in candid poses of dance performance. With each other they use their picked media to convey a viscerally strong, intimate narrative.

 The portray medium sets the stage for Armstrong and Miles to be a part of in the move of storytelling, both equally turn out to be immersed in conveying raw, emotional depth by a prosperous vocabulary of overall body movement and form. They the two engage their media with remarkable, fluid and intuitive gestures. Armstrong speedy solution with dripping paint, and transparent levels of brushstrokes insinuate the speedily shifting flexes of muscle mass in just the dynamic poses. The unfastened brushwork and clear layers of color are offset by Miles’ definitive intention and deep focus, the reiteration of his figure emphasizes the intensity of the dancer’s concentration and travel. The tight target on the figure in the confined space of the composition magnifies the tension of vulnerability and honesty. In the titular portray, “It Goes To Clearly show” the issue can make immediate eye call. Armstrong casts Miles with one eye powerfully gazing back at the viewer, his dance offers a defend defending the intimacy of his art.